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# Numbers

## Content

### Cardinals

#### Proposal 1

- 1-12
    - 1: __ën__
    - 2: __two__
    - 3: __tri__
    - 4: __fier__
    - 5: __femf__
    - 6: __six__
    - 7: __seven__
    - 8: __acht__
    - 9: __nien__
    - 10: __tën__
    - 11: __elv__
    - 12: __tvielf__
- 13-19
    - formed by adding the suffix __-tëen__ to the numbers 3 to 9:
    - compare this to the english suffix //-teen//
- multiples of 10
    - formed by adding the suffix __-tig__ to the name of the first digit
    - compare this to the english suffix //-ty//
- powers of 10
    - 100: __hundred__
    - 1000: __tusend__
- references: [sch12](?id=references:sch12)


#### Proposal 2

- 0-10
    - 0: __nul__
    - 1: __en__
    - 2: __tve__
    - 3: __tri__
    - 4: __fir__
    - 5: __fem__
    - 6: __seks__
    - 7: __siv__
    - 8: __akt__
    - 9: __nin__
    - 10: __ten__
- powers of 10
    - 100: __hundred__
    - 1000: __tusend__
- all other numbers
    - formed by sticking the numbers together according to the decimal system with the numbers from 2 to 9 as factors
    - for example 8192: __akttusend-(en)hundred-ninten-tve__
- for the numbers 11-19 this system differs from most systems used in the Germanic languages, which makes it a little bit harder to comprehend for Germanic speakers without ever having seen it, but it also widens the distance between the names of the number-pairs "10+x/10·x" (13/30, 14/40, …), which is ofter quite small in the systems of the Germanic languages; e.g. the English words //fourteen// and //fourty// are quite susceptical to get confused
- references: fen13

#### Proposal 3

- 0-10
    - 0: __nul__
    - 1: __en__
    - 2: __tvo__
    - 3: __tri__
    - 4: __fir__
    - 5: __fiv__
    - 6: __seks__
    - 7: __siven__
    - 8: __akt__
    - 9: __neen__
    - 10: __ten__
- powers of 10
    - 100: __hundred__
    - 1000: __tusen__
    - 1000000: __miljon__
- references: [cha07](?id=references:cha07)

### Ordinals

The "backbone" of the ordinal suffix will be __T__ and/or __D__, and the options are, in terms of T: __-te__ (Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian); __-ta__ (Icelandic, Swedish); __-t__ (English); and __-ti__ (Icelandic). The other question is whether ordinal numbers will have the singular/plural distinction or be invariant (like genitives). Also, one can see that morphologically, there's a similarity between ordinals and preterites, but happily there is no danger of conflict because numbers don't act as verbs.

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